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frazioni = Piazzolla, Polvica|
telephone = 081 |
postalcode = 80035 and 80037 |
gentilic = Nolani|
saint = San Felice Martyr|
day =November 15 |
mayor = |
website = [http://www.comune.nola.na.it/ http://www.comune.nola.na.it]|
mapy = 14.54|
mapx = 40.9267 |
}}Nola is a city of Campania, Italy, in the province of Naples, situated in the plain between Mount Vesuvius and the Apennines. It is served by the Circumvesuviana railway from Naples.
History
Ancient history
Nola in Bronze Age times was the site of a settlement that has yielded evidence of the destructive power of an eruption by Mount Vesuvius between 1700BC and 1600BC (the Avellino eruption) almost 2000 years before the eruption that buried Roman Pompeii & Herculaneum. Excavations revealed extensive evidence of a small village abandoned quickly by its occupants at the time of the eruption so that a wide range of pottery and other ar